I’m currently in Kenya and I’m loving every minute of it. My team and I are helping at a school in an orphanage. We are also working in the community and helping with different needs. On Wednesdays, we go out into the community and pray.
The power of prayer and worship is huge here. The difference between us and them is that they depend on prayer and worship. In America, it’s not always the first choice because we have a lot of resources. I love how they worship, it gets me so pumped. I’m learning so much about prayer and worship because I couldn’t fully surrender to God during worship before the race. Surrendering to God during worship changes everything.
On our first Wednesday going into the community, we met many locals who wanted to pray with us. The pastor of the church is an anointed man who loves Jesus. He picked me to pray for this young lady who couldn’t bend her arm. I was caught off guard because I have never prayed for anybody like this. I went up there and started to pray and had a lot of moments of silence. I could feel the Holy Spirit but had no words. I wanted this healing for her so bad. After I was done praying, her arm was in the same condition. I instantly felt defeated and questioned my ability to pray. Before the race, I told God that I wanted to see a miracle and it didn’t happen when I needed it to.
The next Wednesday came quickly and I didn’t know if I wanted to go to the prayer meeting because of what had happened the week before. I chose to go and we went back to the young girl’s house. To my surprise, I saw the young girl and I asked her how her arm was, and she said she could bend it and that it was healed. She was moving a table and was helping serve tea and bread. At that moment, I was overwhelmed by God because it DID happen. I couldn’t help but tell everybody the good news. We started to worship and all I could think about was how fast I was to doubt God and the power of prayer. Absolutely nothing is too little or too big for God!
I was shocked at how fast I doubted God because the healing didn’t happen in that moment. It happened on God’s timing. God didn’t need me in order for her to be healed; I’m the one that needs him. It was a reality check that it wasn’t on me but it was all on God. God just wants us to call on him. He is the only thing I can count on in the moments where my faith is small. If you have faith as small as a grain of a mustard seed, you can say to the mountain “move!” and it WILL move… nothing will be impossible for you! Matthew 17:20.
The power of prayer is often unnoticed. We stop relying on prayer and use our own understanding. Don’t worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God. Philippians 4:6. I encourage everyone to start using prayer again even with the things that you overlook.
The beauty of God is that NOTHING is too small or too big. As little as a headache or even curing cancer. Too often, we become okay with a life that God hasn’t attended for you. God is too powerful to be okay with cancer, insecurities, or generational sin. It can and will end for you, you just have to call on God.
This experience with this young girl gave me a new outlook on prayer and God. I’m not going to stop praying until my prayers have been answered. My biggest prayer request right now is for the children at the school we are working with. 60% of students have HIV/AIDS. When I found out, I was devastated. They are only children. I pray that this percentage will go down. But now I’m declaring that God will heal every single person with this disease. I want to see that 60% go down to zero in the name of Jesus.
Brokenness is everywhere, not just in Africa, it’s back home. It’s affecting our families, friends, and even yourself. I pray that people will be reintroduced to the power of prayer and the power of God.
